"[T]he European Commission ... announced plans for comprehensive new laws that have in their sights the massively popular website [Facebook]....Read the whole article here.
Underscoring its new powers under the Lisbon Treaty and the legal basis given to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the commission said it wants to create "a clear, modern set of rules" guaranteeing a high level of personal data protection and privacy....
Mentioning Facebook, Myspace and Twitter by name, [EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media] Ms Reding said she will start this year with a revision of the 1995 Data Protection Directive...." [link added by LawPundit]
Monday, February 01, 2010
EU Personal Data Protection and Privacy Laws to Target Social Media : Facebook, Twitter, Myspace et al.
Leigh Phillips at the EUobserver in New EU laws to target Facebook writes that:
